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Is Diet Quality More Important For Weight Loss Than Counting Calories?

Recent research shows that diet quality may help improve overall health more than just counting calories. fcafotodigital · E+/Getty A two-year study found that a Mediterranean-style diet a...

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Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Following America’s recent measles deaths, anti-vaccine activists have cast doubt on the virus as the culpri...

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The Surprising Health Benefits of Reading a Book

—Maryna Terletska—Getty ImagesWhen was the last time you sat down with a good book? Over the last couple of decades, the number of Americans reading for pleasure has been steadily dropping, with o...

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Shift Supervisor Regrets Being A Complete Jerk After One Video Sends Him To Jail For 6 Years

Most of us have probably had to deal with an insufferable boss at least once in our lives. Someone who makes every task harder than it needs to be and somehow always finds a way to get on your nerv...

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The American Age Is Over

The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived. In the past six months, America’s power—long exemplified by the wor...

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Meta is changing Instagram and Facebook to protect teens’ mental health. Are the new measures backed up by science?

Only_NewPhoto/ShutterstockThe recent landmark ruling against Meta in the United States was the result of a lawsuit filed in 2023 which went to trial in August 2026. It was brought by nearly fifty ...

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States Bet Big on Rural Health Startups, With a Silicon Valley Twist

Your browser does not support the audio element. Can’t see the audio player? Visit kffhealthnews.org to listen. When Josh Fleig, Louisiana’s chief innovation officer, learned h...

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Outcome of Suit Against Department of Labor Could Boost Skimpy Employer Health Plans

A long-running lawsuit challenging what it means to be an employee and therefore have access to work-based health plans is being closely watched by health policy analysts. Its outcome could spur th...

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Love to Read? Your Book Habit May Lower Alzheimer’s Risk by 33%

Research shows that reading has many benefits for people of all ages. Goodboy Picture Company · E+/Getty Research shows that reading for pleasure has various benefits for people of all age...

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Most Men Unaware That Dairy Intake Is Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk

A survey suggests that only 20% of U.S. males know that milk and dairy products are potentially linked to prostate cancer risk. Eva-Katalin/E+/Getty Images A new survey found that only 1 i...

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Restoring Childhood Says It's Not Smartphones Making Teens Miserable. It's School.

Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety, by Peter Gray, Penguin Random House, 352 pages, $32 There's one chart that...

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Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health

Reading a book is quite novel these daysSoma/Alamy Whether it is a novel by Charles Dickens or Jackie Collins, reading for pleasure is good for brain health. Regularly enjoying a good book h...

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Rising Healthcare Costs Have Hit Georgia’s Most Conservative District. But Its Politics Are Unlikely To Change.

Amber Bates of Cohutta, Georgia, is one of thousands of people without health insurance in the 14th Congressional District, home to about 765,000 people in the northwestern corner of the state. ...

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A Cancer Survivor Hoped To Work — Then She Lost Her Medicaid Disability Coverage

Taya Hailstone has been in remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma for five years. But the cancer’s lasting damage to her organs and nerves can make basic tasks, like loading a dishwasher, hard. ...

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Why Your Morning Coffee May Boost Your Mood Before You Even Take a Sip

The aroma of cofee may help boost your mood, according to recent research. Busakorn Pongparnit · Moment/Getty The aroma of coffee may help improve mood and reduce feelings of stress, accor...

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Daydreams, mind-wandering and rumination: What you think about can affect your feelings and mood

Numerous types of thoughts pass through your mind over the course of a day. You may be reminiscing about your last vacation, thinking about a news story, recalling a funny conversation or brainstor...

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Why so few older Americans get counseling – and how it could help

Changes that often accompany later life can raise questions and concerns that people may explore in counseling or therapy. Space_Cat/iStock via Getty ImagesPeople are living longer, reshaping what...

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This Common Household Pet Was Linked to Mental Health Problems in Children

A study from late 2025, published in the World Journal of Pediatrics, found that among nearly 2000 Spanish families, having a cat when children were around 4 to 5 years old was oddly associated wit...

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A Generation of Kids Suffer as Trump Destabilizes Immigrant Families

The little girl stared up at Norma Gómez from the doorway of her neighbor’s apartment, her sad, brown eyes suddenly flashing with hope. “Are you the person who’s going to bring my mom back?”...

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‘The Pitt’ Star Katherine LaNasa Says Early Breast Cancer Detection Saved Her Life

Katherine LaNassa. Photo by Emily Sandifer Emmy winner Katherine LaNasa, who plays Nurse Dana on The Pitt, was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer following a routine mammogram. La...

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Her Bloating Turned Out to Be Colon Cancer at 37. Then She Learned She Had a BRCA2 Mutation

After a stage 1 colon cancer diagnosis at 37, Marisa Stachelski (pictured above) learned she had a BRCA2 mutation that increased her risk of several other cancers. Photo: Marisa Stachelski ...

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